CrazyTalk Animator 3 Tutorial - Creating Multi-Sprite Free Bone Characters

[@xbit2011]

Thumbs up! Nice voice and optimal pacing for a tutorial!

[@Mimeniia]

5 years later but what I needed to know. yeaaaaah!

[@josuediaz5763]

I love your animations seven very stylized projects with your teaching method continues like this and thank you very much.

[@EvilMeans]

Really like what you guys have been doing.

[@reallusion]

Thank you very much. We really try to bring innovative products to the community.

[@edwardf4122]

helpful

[@nadirb229]

VERY GOOD INSTRUCTOR - THANKS

[@MuhammedAlhammouri]

Really appreciated instructor

[@myapfelworld]

Thanks for the very good explanation 👏🏻👏🏻

[@AnJetCat]

Nice Tutorial!

[@paulolego2888]

Hello I have the Demo version, and when I duplicate the layer of the left hand the head disappears, then when I continue duplicating the other layers the head re-appears but an arm disappears, and is a mess, and when I try to animate the character, and I try to move an arm or a leg, the parts I am trying to animete are separated from the body (like minute 7:24) What do I do, I am going to loose the days I have to learn how to use this program, Is because I have the themo version or what?

[@MICHELUTUBED]

very helpful video. Thankyou

[@easyjapaneseforall]

Hi I have cartoon animator4 and I cant lock my feet anymore, Is this not the IK method anymore?, When I am creating the bones and then I go to Motion Key Editor I cant put any lock by pressing Ctrl + left mouse button. Help

[@Regna]

does all this still apply to the new version 4 of cartoon animator ?

[@jacobitejake]

I hope so, especially being able to edit the sprite in an external image editor. I expect they have crippled the V4 Pro version so you need to upgrade to Pipeline :(

[@FPNN]

can you do this in PRO?

[@enke2477]

can we use the preset motions / movements available in CTA3 with our custom-made bone structured characters like this?

[@benzmethod8188]

pro version can use?

[@sadiewinterlord6908]

I don't see the layer manager

[@Onyekason_]

Please I need help from this tutorial. I used a character picture from another site but the character image didn’t work out

[@phoumint]

Could anyone tell me how to move anchor point ?

[@promphanbunnag]

Hi Just only photoshop that I can work with ? Can it’s work with other App? Pixelmator? I’m very new user. Thank you.

[@mathewomolo]

It asks you to choose your prefered editing software

[@АлександрГоловин-с8я]

Ссылка не открывается Можно по другому загрузить

[@reallusion]

Hi Александр Головин I can not speak Russian, so I had to rely on Google translation. Do you mean "You can't open another download link?" If this is the case, may I ask which download link?

[@sovannaramey8144]

Can we animate still logo?

[@Raidbollen]

can i use as external programs Gimp? Because when i save it doesn't work..

[@denisewilson8818]

Not sure what I am doing wrong. I have CTA-4 pipeline; however, things don’t seem to work in my CTA the way they do in the tutorials. I think I followed this tutorial step by step, but all of a sudden, some of the bones turn gray - I guess that means inactive - although the button on layer manager indicates it is active (see attached). The Active/Inactive buttons don’t work at all - can’t change them either way. Also, when I duplicated and masked the left arm, the original left arm didn’t disappear - the process did work for the head (see attached). PLEASE HELP!!!!!

[@bradrg]

I know it's late, but for anyone else who comes across this problem, the "Remove background" button seems to be the culprit. Just close the Mask Editor, and then remove the parts manually (Using mask editor on root) afterwards. It's been 3 years with no fix yet. ​ @Reallusion

[@RustyRaceHorse]

Ok... so, maybe an easy question, but... how do you delete the background of the image that you are importing into crazytalk? I see the original mummy photo... it has a gray background. How do you delete that so there is only the outline of the mummy as the image boarder?

[@reallusion]

Just use the Masking tool inside.

[@Gettinsketchyonbourbon]

no link to the image? does it have to be saved as a certain type of file to be used .JPEG? if I draw something do I need to draw in vector?

[@reallusion]

You can use all kinds of image file types like JPEG, PNG, BMP, and others.

[@senapatiihsan5707]

How to save your animation & how combine/edit your animation with other video ?

[@reallusion]

Export your animations as individual scenes. Then use any video editor to combine the scenes into a film.

[@StopMediaBiasNow]

Can CTA 3 create animated stickers for Telegram?

[@Envyon]

G3 Image Actor option is missing, how?

[@jenifferdoll8320]

Right, me too didn't get that option why

[@jakekeebler262]

I've been enjoying learning this program but I have noticed that when I go to photoshop to restore my root character after I have created my bone structure and masked all of my layers I am not always able to save easily. It seems as if the link between photoshop and CTA is broken sometimes (note: not all the time). There are times when I do ctrl-S and can go right back to CTA and see my newly restored root character, but other times I do a ctrl-S and I get a dialogue box in photoshop as if had just created a new image. The broken link between applications seems to occur when I have walked away from the project for an extended period of time. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong?

[@jakekeebler262]

UPDATE: The problem now persists even when I don't allow time between editing my root character in an external editor before attempting to save. I simply cannot get the root character to be automatically updated in CTA3. Is this because I am working with a demo version? Do I need to change a file path somewhere? Slammed up against a brick wall here. Any insight would be helpful.

[@reallusion]

Hi Jake Could you report your issue to our customer support? Cause we need more information to identify your problem. Some of them may be private. www.reallusion.com/CustomerSupport/user/FAQList.aspx You can scroll down to "Submit a Question" and report your problem.

[@jakekeebler262]

Indeed. I will do some more investigating first as today (2 days after my OP) I am not having the issue. I will see if I can identify the exact place where the error occurs.

[@bigrabbit5617]

What is a main different compare to this method? kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX-Qnn6darCfo68 ? Which way is better to control the character movement?

[@adarshpai3610]

How to save the animation

[@reallusion]

By saving, you mean to create as a video right? To do this, simply export your animation, choose your video format, your video quality, and other options and press Export. This should turn your animation into a playable video file which you can upload to KZbin or others.